This week The Cooking Cure tackles all things lunch. If you’re sick of eating leftovers every day, are looking for fresh ideas, or simply want to bring your lunch to work, this is the week to hop on the bandwagon. Yesterday’s assignment was to remember everything you had for lunch last week.
We checked out the #cookingcure hashtag to see how Day 6’s assignment went for you — here are some highlights!
After back-to-back weekends out of town and a seriously silly weekday schedule, the only thing left to cook for dinner was well, nothing at all. My cupboards looked like they’d been ransacked by some crazed food burglar. Exhausted by this insufferable, never ending New York winter, the odds of me putting on a coat to walk to the grocery were slim to none. I was determined to make something out of nothing for dinner, one of my favorite challenges that almost always results in a good old fashioned kitchen sink pasta.
Although my parents claim to have loved us, there were all sorts of delicious foods that my sister and I knew our friends got to eat in their homes that we were denied in our own, glorious meal-like substances such as shake-and-bake chicken, hamburger helpers, sugar cereals with colorful marshmallows, and popcorn in that thing that unspirals itself and expands in the oven, like, whoa. Childhood was tough! Even now as (theoretically) an adult, I routinely hear about wondrous foods that I have never even once experienced, such as the broccoli-cheese casserole that someone (was it you?) requested I try my hand at earlier this year.
Unfamiliar with the dish, I asked around and it turns out, I really do seem the only person who has never had it. That said, among people I’ve interrogated, reviews are mixed. One friend gushed that it was the only way he’d eat broccoli growing up, another asked me to please bring it back in style, but the girl at the coffee shop this morning said it “smelled disgusting and was often made with Cheez-Whiz,” (sigh, another magical food on the Denied list). And it would be journalistically irresponsible for me not to mention that the dish was called out by name by Cook’s Illustrated founder Chris Kimball in a New York Times op-ed in the days after my beloved Gourmet magazine folded as an example of the web failing to live up to its promise. “Google ‘broccoli casserole’ and make the first recipe you find,” he challenged. “I guarantee it will be disappointing.”
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“Simple is best when garlic and beer act as the marinade for these grilled shrimp. After trying several of the marinated shrimp recipes, my husband said, ‘I love the way you’ve always made them why would you try anything else?’ I thought it was too simple, but I thought I’d share my recipe.”
Last week in The Cooking Cure we tackled all things breakfast. On the first day we asked readers to remember everything they had eaten for breakfast the week before, and on Friday (Day 5’s assignment) we had readers make a new breakfast and plan ahead for the next week (so fun!). How did it go for you?
We checked out the #cookingcure hashtag to see how Day 5’s assignment went for you — here are some highlights!
Purim is the Jewish calendar’s biggest party festival. The holiday celebrates the heroism of Queen Esther, a Jewish woman who rose to become the Queen of Persia and saved her people from destruction at the hands of her husband’s ill-intentioned advisor, Haman. People celebrate Purim by gathering in synagogues to read Esther’s story aloud. They then head off to parties to celebrate the ancient victory by wearing costumes, getting tipsy, and, of course, eating.
Here are some of Purim’s most delectable foods and traditions.
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It’s a dreary Wednesday, and my neighbor Molly is tired of being cooped up in her house with her two little girls. “Why don’t you all come over tomorrow for a family dinner party?” I ask, almost without thinking about it. Everyone is excited, including my daughter, who likes being the 8-year-old babysitter-in-training, and we grown-ups are looking forward to a break in the routine.
But what to cook? And how to make this casual dinner party special while still keeping it fun and comfortable for the kids (and parents)? This week we’ll be talking all about our easy family dinner party, and how you can throw one of your own. Today we’ll start with the party plan!
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